The original tomb erected there in memory of Confucius on the bank of the Sishui River had the shape of an axe.

A kistvaen or cistvaen is a tomb or burial chamber formed from flat stone slabs in a box-like shape.

A Gilding | gilded bronze oil lamp in the shape of a kneeling female servant, dated 2nd century BCE, found in the tomb of Dou Wan, wife of the Han prince Liu Sheng ; its sliding shutter allows for adjustments in the direction and brightness in light while it also traps smoke within the body.

The tomb was constructed in the shape of a pyramid, on the top of a hill.

Worth seeing are the 18th-century Orangerie ( from orange ), initially used as a summerhouse, the Schloßkirche ( Palace Church ) built in 1855 – 1859 in English Neo-Gothic style, the Neoclassic Hebe temple ( with a replica of a statue of the goddess Hebe ), and the Louise Temple, built in 1891 in the shape of a Greek temple to house the tomb of Queen Louise of Prussia, born Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

They have only superficial similarities with the Aegean tombs ( circular shape ) as they are built entirely above ground level and do not share the same tripartite structure-the entrances are usually an undifferentiated part of the circular walling of the tomb.

This cosmological thinking was not limited to domed ceilings, being part of a symbolic association between any house, tomb, or sanctuary and the universe as a whole, but it popularized the use of the domical shape.

Arms of William Canynges, as depicted on his canopied tomb in St Mary Redcliffe: Argent, 3 Moors | Moor's heads couped in profile Tincture ( heraldry ) | proper wreathed around the temples of the first and azure ) The shape of the shield, being a late Tudor ( 16th. c or later ) escutcheon ( heraldry ) | escutcheon suggests this is a later addition or possibly repainting.

The nuraghe Losa ( in Sardinia, close to the village of Abbasanta ) is a complex prehistoric building in the shape of a tholos tomb.

Ranjit Singh's ashes are contained in a marble urn in the shape of a lotus, sheltered under a marble pavilion inlaid with pietra dura, in the centre of the tomb.

The original tomb erected here in memory of Confucius on the bank of the Sishui River had the shape of an axe.

Thür's proposed identification of the skeleton was based on the shape of the tomb ( octagonal, like the Lighthouse of Alexandria ), the carbon dating of the bones ( between 200-20 BC ), the gender of the skeleton, and the age of the young woman at death.

The translated ancient Roman and Greek accounts give a vivid description of the tomb both geometrically and aesthetically ; The tomb's geometric shape has changed little over the years, still maintaining a large stone of quadrangular form at the base, followed by a pyramidal succession of smaller rectangular stones, until after a few slabs, the structure is curtailed by an edifice, with an arched roof composed of a pyramidal shaped stone, and a small opening or window on the side, where the slenderst man could barely squeeze through.

According to a local legend, Napoleon fired a mortar at the tomb, and removed the shape of a hand that topped the conical roof.

Their shape, which suggests an attempt to focus attention on the tomb itself may mean that they were used ceremonially as a kind of open air auditorium during ceremonies.

The shape of the tomb is designed with geometric skills of architecture.

One of the satellite tombs, Tomb 27, has a cruciform passage tomb shape, a feature seen in later tombs like Newgrange or Carrowkeel.

" The shape of the tomb of Neferefra ... as well as a number of other archaeological finds clearly indicate that the construction of the king's funerary monument was interrupted, owing to the unexpected early death of the king.

Although it may share the same resemblance to a mastaba tomb, it is not situated north-south, and it is not rectangular in shape, but square on all sides.

It has a dog-leg shape, typical of the layout of early Eighteenth Dynasty tombs, but several features make this tomb stand out.

Standing before the tomb of Raphael, the great genius of the Renaissance, when shafts of sunlight are penetrating this great Roman temple, you are once again reminded of the varied civilizations so characteristic of Rome.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

In 1939, Nagib Mahfuz wrote the novel Khufu's Wisdom, which leans on the stories of Papyrus Westcar ; In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

* The Second Day, The Great Procession of Osiris: The body of Osiris was taken from his temple to his tomb.

Tombs from the 8th century BC to the 7th century BC that confirm a likely presence of a Sabine settlement area have been discovered ; on the hill, there was the tomb of Quirinus, which Lucius Papirius Cursor transformed into a temple for his triumph after the third Samnite war.

At Naqsh-e Rustam can be found the tombs of the Achaemenid kings as well as the Ka ' ba-ye Zartosht, which has been thought to be either a Zoroastrian fire temple or possibly even the true tomb of Cyrus the Great.

The priest then sprinkles Rosewater and fresh Rose petals all over the tomb, the congregation, and the temple / church.

For the next 1, 500 years, an annual festival procession traveled from Osiris ' main temple to the tomb site.

During winter months, Apollo was said to have deserted his temple, his place being taken by his divine half-brother Dionysus, whose tomb was within the temple.

In 1998 the remains of the monumental tomb of Antinous, or a temple to him, were discovered at Hadrian's Villa.

In the temple rests the head of Orpheus and the tomb of Lady Constantine.

It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.

" The Iolesi, so named by him ( to Iolaus ), added a temple to his tomb, because he had freed Sardinia for many ills ".

3 1? 33 ), its chief temples and statues, its springs, its market-place and gymnasium, its place of sacrifice, the tomb of the hero Aristomenes and the temple of Zeus Ithomatas on the summit of the acropolis with a statue by the famous Argive sculptor Ageladas, originally made for the Messenian helots who had settled at Naupactus at the close of the third Messenian War.

During the reign of Rameses II a follower of the goddess Mut donated all his property to her temple and recorded in his tomb:

When he pulled down the temple of Dagon and killed himself and the Philistines the structure fell backward, so that he was not crushed, his family being thus enabled to find his body and to bury it in the tomb of his father.

On arriving at the temple, the remaining forty-six ronin washed and cleaned Kira's head in a well, and laid it, and the fateful dagger, before Asano's tomb.

Today, the remains of Alfonso VI are buried in the Benedictine Monastery at Sahagún, at the foot of the temple, in a stone chest covered with smooth, modern marble and in a tomb near equally plain, lie the remains of several of the king's wives, including those of Constance.

There are ruins of a number of temples, including the chief temple dedicated to Amun, and a very important royal necropolis of the Third Intermediate Period ( which contains the only known intact royal Pharaonic burials — the tomb of Tutankhamun having been entered in antiquity ).

The sibyl, who was born near there, at Marpessus, and whose tomb was later marked by the temple of Apollo built upon the archaic site, appears on the coins of Gergis, ca 400 – 350 BCE.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

She died around 1603 and is buried in the O ' Malley family tomb on Clare Island.

Her household later on gave her a modest tomb in Misenum.

The Italian scholar Maggiani recently showed that on an Etruscan tomb dedicated to Racvi Satlnei in Bologna ( 5th century BC ) there is a writing that says: " aivastelmunsl

His tomb still exists on the plateau between Lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of Sardis — a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

After that, he moved to a tomb, where he resided and closed the door on himself, depending on some local villagers who brought him food.

The following day Anthemios found the tomb and inside it the remains of Barnabas with a manuscript of Matthew's Gospel on his breast.

Opus caementicium lying bare on a tomb near Rome.

The tomb lies on the line of several cairns that marked the east-west route of the ancient Monks ' Path between Buckfast Abbey and Tavistock Abbey and it was no doubt erected here as part of that route: it would have been particularly useful in this part of the moor with few landmarks where a traveller straying from the path could easily end up in Foxtor Mires.

Sluter was also responsible for the main part of the work on Philip's tomb, which ( restored and partly reconstructed ) has been moved to the Museum of Fine Arts which is housed in the former ducal palace in Dijon.

An early Classic ( 460 – 480 AD ) period Mayan tomb from the site of Rio Azul, Guatemala, had vessels with the Maya glyph for cacao on them with residue of a chocolate drink.

A painted terracotta centaur was found in the " Hero's tomb " at Lefkandi, and by the Geometric period, centaurs figure among the first representational figures painted on Greek pottery.

Some examples of Cirth writings are the inscription on Balin's tomb in Moria and the inscriptions on the top of the title pages for The Lord of the Rings.

Although this space was discovered recently, and contains no identifying marks, many Christians believe it to be the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea in which the Syriac Orthodox celebrate their Liturgy on Sundays.

That means, this place outside of the city, without any doubt, ...., the dating of the tombs is based on the fact that they are in the kokh style, which was common in 1st century ; however, the kokh style of tomb was also common in the first to 3rd centuries BC.